sanguijuela

/[sãŋgiˈxwela]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#61,915

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sanguijuela is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Hirudo medicinalis) Gusano anélido y hermafrodita ectoparásito que se alimenta chupando sangre de personas y animales. Vive en lugares húmedos y se adhiere a su huésped mediante a una ventosa. Mie... Pronounced [sãŋgiˈxwela].

Key facts for sanguijuela
PropertyValue
Headwordsanguijuela
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[sãŋgiˈxwela]
Letters11
Frequency rank#61,915
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sanguijuela in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sanguijuela is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sãŋgiˈxwela]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,915 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sanguijuela in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is sanguijuela, spelled S-A-N-G-U-I-J-U-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Hirudo medicinalis) Gusano anélido y hermafrodita ectoparásito que se alimenta chupando sangre de personas y animales. Vive en lugares húmedos y se adhiere a su huésped mediante a una ventosa. Mientras succiona sangre segrega anticoagulantes, vasodilatadores y anestésicos, motivos por lo que desde la Antigüedad se le ha dado uso medicinal.
  2. 2
    (Hirudinea) Por extensión, nombre común de las cerca de 600 especies que componen la clase a la que pertenece la sanguijuela₁. Son animales hermafroditas que habitan toda clase de ambientes acuáticos y que en su mayoría son de hábitos depredadores antes que parásitos.
  3. 3
    Persona o entidad que se aprovecha de los demás.

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Frequency rank: #61,915 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sanguijuela"?
"sanguijuela" is spelled S-A-N-G-U-I-J-U-E-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [sãŋgiˈxwela].
What does "sanguijuela" mean?
As a noun, "sanguijuela" means: (Hirudo medicinalis) Gusano anélido y hermafrodita ectoparásito que se alimenta chupando sangre de personas y animales. Vive en lugares húmedos y se adhiere a su huésped mediante a una ventosa. Mie...
How do you pronounce "sanguijuela"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sanguijuela" is [sãŋgiˈxwela]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.